Judicium Crucis

was stretching out the arms before a cross, till one of the
party could hold out no longer, and lost his cause. The bishop of Paris
and abbot of St. Denis appealed to this judgment in a dispute they had
about the patronage of a monastery; each of the disputants selected a
man to represent his cause, and the man selected by the bishop gave in,
so that the award was given in favour of the abbot.